Yang Yuanqing did not expect that the other party's assassination was so weak. Perhaps it was too unprofessional, or perhaps it was because he was well prepared. They did not expect that they would change to riding in a carriage.

But none of these matters. What matters is that he achieved his goal. Yu Shiji's wife Sun got into his trap and fell into a doom.

The news that Yu Shiji's wife Sun bought a murderer and assassinated important officials from the frontier spread throughout the court and the country within an hour, and also spread throughout most of Luoyang City.

In all dynasties, assassination of ministers has been an extremely taboo thing, because it involves everyone's personal interests and is hated by all ministers. No matter who violates this, it will arouse strong anger from all ministers. It is precisely this reason that the despicable means of assassinating court officials are also the bottom line of the emperor, and no emperor can tolerate it.

So when Yang Yuanqing handed over an assassination contract and an assassination commission IOU to Yang Guang, Yang Guang's face turned blue. The assassin was arrested on the spot and confessed to the broker. The broker confessed to Sun's family. He almost roared, "Come on! Seize Yu Shiji's house and order the Dali Prison to strictly investigate the case!"

Yang Guang could tolerate Yu Shiji's corruption and bribery, and tolerate Yu Shiji's son's rampant behavior. None of these violated his bottom line, and he could tolerate it. However, when Yang Yuanqing had already apologized, Sun still bought murderers and assassinated important officials in the frontier. He could not tolerate it no matter how much, otherwise he would not be able to explain to the ministers of the court. Even if Yu Shiji was not aware of it, the envoy of the buyer was his wife, and he could not escape this responsibility no matter how much.

"Your Majesty, although Sun bought the murderer, the cause was a small matter, and Yu Shilang was not aware of it. I hope Your Majesty can be tolerant as much as possible. I do not want to ruin the career of an important official for this matter."

Yang Yuanqing was very grateful to his grandfather for teaching him some important skills in the officialdom during the last period of time. The most important thing is degree. You must grasp this degree. You cannot do anything too much, as it will be overflowing.

Although he could force Yang Guang to severely punish Yu Shiji at this time, he could never do this. Even if Yang Guang was forced to dismiss Yu Shiji and be held accountable, although he was happy for a while, Yang Yuanqing would definitely turn around and hold him accountable in his heartache, leaving some room for Yang Guang, that is, leaving some room for himself.

Yang Guang had also slowly calmed down. He began to consider how to deal with this matter and how to deal with Yu Shiji?

Yu Shiji is now his favorite and most capable minister. From his original intention, he did not want to deal with Yu Shiji, but he also knew that the reason why Yu Shiji's wife dared to take the blame and assassinate important officials was closely related to Yu Shiji's usual arrogance to his wife. Yu Shiji could not be without responsibility. The key is how to deal with it. It can not only give Yang Yuanqing and the court an explanation, but it will not make Yu Shiji too miserable.

Yang Guang was also balancing the punishment. He was in a dilemma. Yang Yuanqing showed tolerance, which made him very satisfied. But he could not just let it go because of Yang Yuanqing's tolerance. Yesterday, Yang Yuanqing took the initiative to apologize, and today the assassination happened. Sun's move was undoubtedly a slap in the face. He could not bear this face.

At this moment, an eunuch reported at the door, "Your Majesty, Doctor Pei is asking for a meeting!"

Doctor Pei is the Censor Pei Yun, who is in charge of the Censorate. His appearance will definitely not be a good thing. Yang Guang smiled bitterly in his heart and had to issue an order: "Present him to meet him!"

Soon, Pei Yun hurried into the imperial study room and bowed, "I met your Majesty, Pei Yun!"

"Is there anything wrong with Pei Aiqing?"

When Yang Guang saw Pei Yun holding a thick booklet in his hand, he understood a little. Sure enough, Pei Yun presented the booklet and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, this is a humble minister who impeached Yu Shiji to indulge his family to commit crimes, so that his wife bought a murderer and assassinated the ministers. Yu Shiji could not escape the blame. I beg Your Majesty to punish Yu Shiji severely. This is not only my intention, but also the common voice of 380 ministers. If a family does not govern, how can you govern the country? Yu Shiji failed His Majesty's expectations for him."

Yang Guang was shocked. Did 380 people jointly impeached the letter in such a short time? He received the memorial, and the first was Pei Yun impeached Yu Shiji, pointing out his four major crimes, selling officials and bribing public acts, revenge on public revenge, and provoking his son's arrogant wife. Each of them has detailed records. The latter was a densely packed official signature, with important officials such as Su Wei, Yu Wen Shu, Zhang Jin, Pei Ju, Niu Hong and other important officials, and even his brother Yu Shinan, signed the signature at the end.

Yang Guang's face became increasingly ugly, and Pei Yun put strong pressure on him, but Pei Yun was the censor and impeached the ministers was his duty, and it was not allowed to write a letter to the joint letter. This made Yang Guang very troubled. Yu Shiji offended too many people. At this critical moment, the ministers began to attack him.

Yang Guang sighed. He understood that Yu Shiji had violated the public's anger this time. It seemed that he had to leave his troops to protect the generals, punish Yu Shiji, and give the ministers an explanation.

Yang Guang's imperial decree was issued that night, "Beheaded the broker and the assassin and made it public, and ordered Yu Shiji to divorce his wife. His wife Sun assassinated important officials in the frontier. The evidence was conclusive and the crime was unforgivable. He was beaten to one hundred poaches and sentenced to death and exiled to Lingnan. His son Xiahou Yan was also exiled. Yu Shiji arrogantly enslaved his wife and had no choice but to dismiss his post as Shilang and demoted him to Changsha County Magistrate."

Poor Yu Shiji ran to Luokoucang to avoid the King of Qi. He didn't understand anything and lost his official position for no reason. He was not strict in his family and was arrogant and arrogant, and led to the disaster today. This is also a common situation of losing his official position in the officialdom since ancient times.

Yang Yuanqing was also re-recognized in this assassination. Some people said that the assassination was just a coincidence, but some people said that the assassination was Yang Yuanqing's plan. However, whether it was a coincidence or a plan, Yang Yuanqing defeated the most powerful minister of the dynasty. This is a fact, which made all the civil and military officials of the court look at him with admiration.

It was this case that greatly improved Yang Yuanqing's status in the court and became one of the important officials in the court in one fell swoop.

‘People at that time didn’t recognize Lingyun wood, so they just waited for Lingyun to start to have a high path’.

The second time the assassination occurred was when Yang Guang officially set out for the southern tour. However, in the middle of the night, a major incident occurred in the capital, which forced Yang Guang to temporarily decide to postpone the southern tour and fall into great grief of losing his son.

In July of the second year of Daye, Prince Yang Zhao became ill due to obesity and died in his sleep. He was 23 years old at the time.

That night, Yang Guang and Empress Xiao fell to the palace. Although they were a little disgusted with their son being too fat, this was their biological flesh and blood, and they had only two sons. The death of the eldest son made the couple cry and hug them and rushed to the prince's mansion overnight to cry for the eldest son.

In great grief, Yang Guang issued an order to postpone the southern tour indefinitely, and to order all officials to mourn the prince.

The prince's mansion set up a mourning shed overnight. Before dawn, all officials began to come to mourn the prince in a constant stream. Everyone wore mourning to mourn the prince.

Yang Yuanqing rushed to the Prince's Mansion before dawn. Yang Zhao's sudden death also made him very sad. Although he knew that there would be such a day, when this moment really came, the sorrow for the death of his elder brother and the sorrow for the death of his friend made him unable to help himself and shed tears.

As soon as he entered Yang Zhao's spiritual shed, the Crown Princess Wei took Yang Zhao's three sons to kneel down for him. The three children lay at his feet and cried loudly. Yang Yuanqing hurriedly knelt down. He couldn't help but cry and said to Wei: "Your Highness the Crown Prince just told me three days ago that I hope I can help his children and keep them safe forever. My minister Yang Yuanqing will do his best to make them safe forever and not let their father down."

Wei also wiped his tears and said, "The prince also told the children that they would regard you as their uncle. He just left his will yesterday afternoon, and he unfortunately passed away at night. I will keep the will and give it to them when the children grow up. I hope General Yang will remember their father's kindness and protect the three children at all times."

"My minister Yang Yuanqing will never refuse to die!"

Yang Yuanqing slowly walked to Yang Zhao's spiritual throne, knelt down again, and silently said to Yang Zhao in his heart: "Since I promised that Your Highness should protect the third son, I should do my best to protect them for life and not let the King of Qi harm him. Even if the way of nature is changeable, one day I have to meet my third son, which is not Yuan Qing's original intention. Yuan Qing should try his best to keep his life and cannot bear to kill him. I hope my brother will observe the spirit of heaven."

After praying silently, Yang Yuanqing kowtowed three times to Yang Zhao's spiritual position.

At this moment, a dry howl came from the door of the tent, "The emperor's brother died young, how can the relationship between the brothers be with me!"

This is where King Yang Qing of Qi arrived. He wore mourning clothes and was covered in mourning. Although he was full of sadness, he was secretly happy. Since many years ago, he wanted to take his brother and replaced him, his brotherly feelings in his heart have become as weak as water. Now that his brother has passed away, he has become the only prince. He has the hope of climbing to the Nine Cauldrons. How can he not be very happy?

He walked into the spirit shed. Although Yang Zhao's third son did not like this emperor's uncle, he could only come forward to pay homage. Yang Hsiao quickly helped up his three nephews and said hypocritically: "The emperor's brother is unfortunate, and I am your only uncle. I should regard you as your son, so as to protect you sooner or later to prevent you from being harmed by villains. You don't have to worry."

Yang Qing also knew very well that if he ascended the Nine Cauldrons, his only competitor would be these three nephews. Will the father be the crown prince? He was also full of worries. If possible, he would want to poison these three sons immediately.

Yang Qing walked to his brother's spiritual throne and knelt down, but found that Yang Yuanqing was actually kneeling beside him. He was stunned and did not say anything more, but kowtowed to his brother three times.

Yang Zhao's third son hurried forward and knelt beside him and returned the greeting.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing had already finished worshiping the spirit. He was about to get up, but suddenly he heard Yang Qing's cold voice, "Yang Yuanqing, if you are willing to surrender to me and regard me as your rule, I will write down our past grudges and will treat you well. What do you think?"

Just yesterday afternoon, Yang Ming also heard the news that Yang Yuanqing had defeated Yu Shiji, which surprised him. Although he was quite dissatisfied with Yu Shiji in the past two days, Yu Shiji was his military advisor after all. This time Yu Shiji was overthrown and transferred to Changsha as the county magistrate, which made him lose his right-hand man. He finally realized Yang Yuanqing's power. This person would be a big enemy on his way to the Eastern Palace. Now Yang Zhao is dead. If he can win over Yang Yuanqing, of course it is best. If he can't win over, he must get rid of it as soon as possible.

Although his three nephews were beside him, Yang Hing didn't care at all. He stared at Yang Yuanqing again and threatened fiercely: "If you dare not follow, I will let you die without a single place."

Yang Yuanqing slowly stood up and smiled indifferently, "I'm sorry, I just swear in front of the prince's spirit that I should protect his son and enter the Eastern Palace early. His Highness the King of Qi loves him, and Yuanqing cannot accept it."

After saying that, he bowed deeply to Yang Zhao's third son and turned around. Yang Zhao's third son all heard the conversation between them just now. The eldest son Yang Neng pulled his two younger brothers to kneel down and kowtowed to Yang Yuanqing's back.
Chapter completed!